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The cost of care homes for people with dementia in England
— a modelling approach | | Author(s) | Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp, Suzanne Salverda |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 32, no 12, December 2017 |
| Publisher | Wiley, December 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1466-1475 |
| Source | http://www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Costs [care] ; Evaluation ; England. |
| Annotation | The present study aimed to examine the cost of care for people with dementia in institutional care settings, to understand the major cost drivers and to highlight opportunities for service development. Data on 277 residents with dementia in 16 UK residential or nursing homes were collected. The study estimated care and support costs and fitted models to the data. Sensitivity analyses were also conducted. It was found that care home residents cost £792 weekly, and 95% of the costs are accounted for by direct fees. Hospital contacts contributed the largest proportion of the additional costs. Having an established diagnosis of dementia was associated with higher costs. No association was found between cost and needs. The absence of an association between cost and needs emphasises the importance of a more needs-based costing system which could result in clinical and economic advantages. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180119231 A |
| Classmark | EA: KW: LHB: QDC: 4C: 82 |
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